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Reference works

The Library holds a number of British parliamentary publications in the Reference Collection in the Main Reading Room. More information on all aspects of the work and publications of the Parliament can be found on the UK Parliament website.

Dod's parliamentary companion includes biographies and contact information on members of the Houses of Parliament and the Civil Service. Library holdings are from 1904, with the current edition in the MRR Reference collection at RF 328.42 DOD.

British politics and political parties

'Arrival of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria at the House of Lords, to open the first Parliament of her reign,' Nov. 30 1837.The procession, headed by Lord Cottenham, the Lord Chancellor, is passing through the corridor of the temporary House of Lords erected after the fire of 1834.